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venerdì 23 giugno 2017

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CHARLOTTE - An Eaton County man convicted on six counts of sexual assault will serve at least 40 years in prison.

Justin Earl Bowles, 39, of Charlotte, was convicted by a jury in April on two counts of first-degree criminal sexual conduct and four counts of second-degree criminal sexual conduct.

The crimes each involve a victim younger than 17.

During a hearing Thursday in Eaton County's 56th Circuit Court, Judge Janice Cunningham ordered Bowles to serve 40-60 years in prison on the first two counts, and 14-22.5 years on each of the remaining four counts.

He had faced up to life in prison on the first-degree charges. Second-degree criminal sexual assault typically carries a maximum sentence of 15 years but Bowles was charged as a habitual offender because he has three OWI convictions.

Steven Freeman, Bowles' attorney, said Friday he thinks the punishment is excessive.

"Given the fact that he’s (nearly) 40 years old, 25-40 would be reasonable," Freeman said. "He’d be 65, and the likelihood of him being paroled (the first time) is probably not good."

As it stands, Bowles will first come up for parole when he's nearly 80.

"It serves no rational purpose," Freeman said. "There's no rational basis with respect to the idea of proportionality."

Eaton County Prosecutor Doug Lloyd disagreed.

"For what this individual did, without going into specifics, (40 years) was the minimum of what he should have received," Lloyd said. "This was a serial rapist who was raping young children... this individual will not rape another child for at least another 40 years.

Bowles plans to appeal both the sentence and conviction, Freeman said.

WICHITA, Kan. (KWCH) — A convicted sex offender has been arrested after an intruder sexually assaulted a seven-year-old girl over the weekend.

Officers found the 23-year-old man at his place of work and took him into custody. He was booked into Sedgwick Co. Jail on counts of Attempted First Degree Murder, Aggravated Criminal Sodomy, Aggravated Kidnapping, Burglary to Commit a Felony, and Rape.

13 NEWS' sister station, KWCH, has confirmed through booking records the man arrested was Corbin James Breitencach. A check of the KBI's offender registry shows Breitenbach was convicted of aggravated sexual battery in 2013.

The attack left the Wichita neighborhood on edge, with neighbors saying there are a lot of children in the area and they were worried.

Initially, there was only a vague description of the suspect, increasing their concerned as they tried finding him.

That's what makes it scary, because nobody knows who it is," neighbor Melanie Ossman said as the man responsible for the seven-year-old girl's assault has not been arrested, nor identified. Police said the assault happened about 2:40 a.m. Sunday in an apartment in the 1400 block of North Smith Court (near I-235 and Zoo Blvd.)

Katie Sowell who lives behind the scene says she has been "more paranoid than normal" over the past few nights.

Sowell has children of her own and says what happened early Sunday could have happened to her family, or any one of the families in the neighborhood.

HUNTINGTON - West Virginia State Police have arrested a 48-year-old Barboursville man accused of sexually abusing a young female family member over a four-year period beginning when she was 7 years old.

Donald Keith Moore is charged with two counts of sexual abuse by a parent or guardian, two counts of first-degree sexual assault, two counts of first-degree sexual abuse, two counts of third-degree sexual assault and two counts of third-degree sexual abuse, according to criminal complaints from Cabell County Magistrate Court.

The investigation began in May when the victim, now housed at an alternative school in Ona, confided in employees she had been sexually abused by Moore between 2009 and 2013, beginning when she was in the second grade.

In an interview with troopers, the victim accused Moore of performing sexual acts and groping her as she pretended to sleep while her mother was away at work. The reported abuse happened on at least 10 occasions, complaints state, at three different residences in Huntington.

The investigation led to warrants for Moore's arrest being signed Friday, and he was arrested later that night.

Moore remains incarcerated at Western Regional Jail on a $100,000 bond.

SPRINGFIELD - A 45-year-old city man was sentenced to state prison for 15 to 17 years on Monday after a jury found him guilty of two counts of child rape.

Testimony by the now adult victim in Hampden Superior Court last week described sexual abuse byCarlos Riveraspanning 10 years, from 1999 to 2009. The male victim, who was in Rivera's care, was ages six through 16 when it happened in Holyoke.

Judge John A. Agostini sentenced Rivera, of Springfield, to the prison term Friday after a four day jury trial.

The case rested solely on the victim's testimony.

Assistant District Attorney Carrie M. Russell, who prosecuted the case, said, "Today's verdict is the sole result of the brave testimony of the now adult survivor, and we are hopeful that it will bring him some measure of solace as he moves forward in his pathway to healing."

Hampden District Attorney Anthony D. Gulluni said, "This verdict is the result of the brave testimony delivered by the survivor of this awful abuse. My office's Special Victims Unit works very hard to empower victims of abuse to help us secure justice."

Gulluni thanked Russell for "a superb job. Cases such as these are not easy to prosecute, and prosecutors like Carrie work very hard to prevent these offenders from hurting other children. This office will continue to prosecute cases of sexual violence and child abuse as vigorously as possible in our mission to keep children safe."

According to a press release from the Camden County Sheriff’s Office, Gregory Floyd Bates, 43, was taken into custody Saturday, June 17.

The unidentified minor female victim appears to be the daughter of Bates, who disclosed to investigators that the abuse started around the time she was 9 years old. The victim told investigators the assaults had occurred on more than one occasion in which she was subjected to forced oral sex and inappropriate touching, according to the court document.

Another unidentified female also interviewed by police in the case alleged abuse by Bates when she was in her early teens.

Bates is facing one count of first degree sodomy or attempted sodomy with a victim less than 12 years of age, an unclassified felony, and one count of first degree child molestation, a Class A felony.

The sexual abuse allegations stem from Kids’ Harbor interviews conducted in Osage Beach on June 10 and June 15, 2017, which a detective for the Camden County Sheriff’s Office was requested to attend, according to the probable cause statement obtained by the Lake Sun.

The first charge of sodomy, forced oral sex, relates to the June 10 interview in which the victim is around nine years of age.

A second female said in the June 15 interview that she had lived with Bates for approximately six months during her 8th grade school year during which time she said he touched her inappropriately.

According to the probable cause statement, this female confronted Bates at some point, saying “You do not touch that little girl. She is 9 years old, at least I was 13 or 14.” She added that she felt bad about not telling someone before now.

The investigation appears to have begun when a woman described as someone’s adoptive mother and Bates’ spouse - the court document was heavily redacted - contacted the Children’s Hotline after after she had observed a video of [redaction] on a tablet, according to the court document which described a disturbing video involving the victim.

On June 17, 2017, detectives conducted an interview with Bates regarding the allegations made against him.

“Greg stated he had been fighting with his wife of 17 years and had suicidal thoughts. I told Greg allegations were made and if he knew anything about them,” the document states. “Greg replied since the allegations were about his daughter, ‘it’s more likely sexual.’ When asked about details regarding electronics, Greg requested a lawyer and the interview was ceased.”

Bates is being held in the Camden County Detention Center on a $1 million cash-only bond.

A 76-year-old Ord man who sexually abused a 12-year-old girl a decade ago at her Lincoln home went to prison for it Monday.

Fernando Rodriguez pleaded no contest to attempted first-degree sexual assault. At his sentencing, he said through an interpreter that he had nothing to say.

In an affidavit for his arrest, Lincoln police said a woman reported the abuse last year and said it started when she was a young child, but she waited to report it because another girl she knew reported similar encounters with Rodriguez and her family disowned her.

The affidavit for his arrest included four other girls who said they were sexually assaulted by Rodriguez, two within the previous year.

Deputy Lancaster County Attorney Chris Turner said Monday that Rodriguez's actions had ramifications on his victims as children and still today.

Lancaster County District Judge Andrew Jacobsen called it a very serious offense and sentenced Rodriguez to 15 to 20 years.

COLUMBIANA – A 52-year-old Childersburg man is being held in the Shelby County Jail on bonds totaling nearly a million dollars after he was arrested by the Shelby County Sheriff’s Office and charged with 18 sex crimes – many of them involving children.

Deputies arrested Felix Lionell Garrett, who lists an address on Kymulga Road in Childersburg, on June 16 and charged him with nine counts of first-degree rape, four counts of first-degree sodomy and five counts of sexual abuse of a child younger than 12.

First-degree rape and first-degree sodomy are Class A felonies, and carry maximum penalties of life in prison upon conviction. Sexual abuse of a child younger than 12 is a Class B felony, and carries a maximum of 20 years in prison upon conviction.

Garrett’s charges came as the result of an SCSO and Vincent Police Department investigation, which uncovered multiple years of sexual abuse.

According to his arrest warrants, Garrett’s child sex abuse charges came when he submitted a child younger than 12 to sexual contact multiple times between July 2010 and June 2014.

His arrest warrants also alleged he engaged “in sexual intercourse with…a member of the opposite sex by forcible compulsion” multiple times between July 2014-May 2017, leading to his first-degree rape charges.

One of his first-degree sodomy charges came when he engaged in deviate sexual intercourse with a victim who was younger than 12 between July 2010 and June 2014, and three of his first-degree sodomy charges came when he engaged in deviate sexual intercourse with a victim “by forcible compulsion” multiple times between July 2014 and May 2017.

As of June 19, Garrett was being held in the Shelby County Jail on bonds totaling $930,000. He is set to appear in Shelby County District Court on July 27 for a preliminary hearing in front of Judge Daniel Crowson at 8:30 a.m.

The sexual assault of two girls numerous times over the past three years likely will put a Ravenna man in prison for a long time following his guilty plea in the case.

Michael D. Fowler, 54, remains in the Portage County jail on $2.5 million bond after he pleaded guilty last week in Portage County Common Pleas Court to three counts of rape, all first-degree felonies, and one count of gross sexual imposition, a third-degree felony.

The rape charges carry a sentence of life in prison with the possibility of parole after 10 years, and the gross sexual imposition charge an additional one to five years in prison. Fowler also will be required to register as a sex offender.

He was indicted on Nov. 21 on sexual assault charges after a Portage County Sheriff's Office investigation determined he molested a girl earlier that month.

The investigation also determined that Fowler raped and molested another victim multiple times between June 2014 and November 2016, according to his indictment.